Those are fantastic. I'm trying to figure out what sort of car they used as the basis for the Custaxie.
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Those are fantastic. I'm trying to figure out what sort of car they used as the basis for the Custaxie.
I was wondering the same thing Steve..Thunderbird?
A 1955 Customline, I believe
Not the actual car David, the one in the link above.
Sorry!
Btw David, the Kerry Rout Anglia you mention above was actually owned by Ron Rutherford (famous for the 250M Zephyr engined single seater which may have been originally built by Wally Darrel).(And of course Kelford Kams, and Woodford Glen) I actually collected the car from AK and drove it to ChCh for Ron, can you imagine doing that these days? It had a standard twin cam in it otherwise was same as Fahey raced it.
PK.
And No.7 in my list
Does anyone remember Bob Slade's left steer Anglia, it appeared for a season and a bit then disappeared and to my knowledge never reappeared, it was white with a dark stripe running front to back.
#7 on da list:)
was later converted back to standard roof triang
And there was the one primarily used as a road car, converted by Julian (?) Tordoff in Hamilton, did the odd Hamilton club event, seen recently on Trae Me. Red with black Vinyl roof.
I recall Paul Barnard telling me that he sold his car to someone in Taupo. Don't believe it's been seen since. I know Paul was trying to track it down at one stage. Will give him a call & let everyone know. Better still, I'll try and get Paul to contribute here.
some house keeping trevour Eves before and after
Paul Fahey
Good shots.
So now the question is who does number 14 belong to? it would be this one
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Which I had previously posted and that Mr Mckinney was unable to identify. any takers now?
Quite correct, I didn't caption them because Dave McKinney obviously doesn't sleep and need some stimulation.
I was a sometime customer at Seatour S/S depending on when payday fell. Is your brother GY or CN? The latter had an anglia himself if I remember correctly. Knew the Jurie family well, pity Dave had an attraction to trees.
Might be swimming upstream here but didn't John Ward have a fastback which I either didn't see or overlooked in this thread
dont think we have a pic of that car
Good shot, thanks.
excuse the dumb question from a winjun pom but why did the anglias get the fast back body line?
I recall the Sebring austin healey / lenham sprite cars had a fastback addition
we couldn't use this sort of body shape modification on our saloon cars as we had a rule that specified the silouhette could not be changed
wide aches could be added as they didn't alter the side view and spoilers where allowed within a creation dimension
we could add rear "wing" on the boot lid unto half the height of rear wind so long as it was attached toe the whole of the boot lid
There is a Gp 5 BMW 320 that raced in germany that had a rear window made into a larger area for aerodynamics to create a fastback effect
Improved the aerodynamics, therefore made them faster in a straight line
where they actually faster ?
I know back then the car makers didn't have wind tunnels so some things where hit n miss like the Stiletto coupe looked sleeker than the Imp but it needed a rear wing on the boot to flick up the air as it created turbulence behind the boot
cleans up the tubulance created by the cutback rear window, add in a roof chop probably quite effective,
My memory (from the time) was that someone worked out that if you drew a graph of maximum speed against bhp, an Anglia would hit a "brick wall" at 125mph. The early (Fahey, Simpson, Nazer) twincam cars no doubt went faster than that
The same theory said a Mini hit the same "brick wall" at 115mph. I wonder what improvements the Minisprints enjoyed?
Not sure on the Minisprints, but when the Broadspeed Mini was born they pretty much would guarantee 8-10 MPH+ in top speed
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Paul Fahey Fastback Anglia image from another forum.
Huxford,s it is. Fascinating to look through that old program. Someone raced a Standard 10??! The Holden is Mcpherson who then raced an EH,and now I know that the Cortina was Barry Phillips. Thanks, now I know who the drivers are from that meeting as I coudn't remember from all those years ago!
Sorry for any confusion. I was refering to the post on the 1st page of this thread that had the Levin program displayed. I should not have had that last can!!
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Found this awesome image at LevinAttachment 18816Alex in the original Hybird 100E/105E and Gary in Breadvan Anglia